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Show iRM 'M ESCAPES REBELS Having traveled 3,000 miles on foot and with only such equipment as can be put on the backs of two sturdy little burros, S. L. Conro. his wlte and his seven-year-old son, Alfred, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday noon, baund tor Brigham City, whence they went Into Mexico as Mormon colonists set I en years ago. ( j "We left in the middle of the night, April 27, to escape the attack of a ' imirdeious band of rebels," said Con-j ro. "There were half a dozen families' then, but they dropped by the wav-glde. wav-glde. We are going back to our old home aud what earthly goods we possess pos-sess are there on the backs of those little donkeys. God bless 'cm. thoy arc the finest pair of dumb brutes that ever lived," Mr Conn said. "Four months ago I had a thriving faun and wag prospering by growing oiangcs. Then came the rebel disturbances. dis-turbances. A Mexican friend of mine wnrned us in the middle ot the night that a band of rebels was coming up the vallej bent on trouble We packed what we could on the burros and left at 11 o'clock at night, making mak-ing forty-nine miles without a stop. Refugees Scattered. in the party were about twenty persons. Including families named Mltchel, Jones, Averet and Hawley. Buit Hawley, I think, was a former Ogden man. I do not know what became of those lamilles. We separated sep-arated at different points and some of them stopped In the deserts from weariness. Thoy may have perished or the may have been murdered by the rebels "We headed for the Gulf of California, Cali-fornia, but we missod the boat that was sent by the government to bring in American refugees, so we decided to come home overland We had no money to speak of Here are two copper cents. Thev represent the last of my little stake. Luckily I got papers from the Mexicau government govern-ment before I left for $3,609 damages dam-ages for tho loss of my farm. I wonder if I'll ever get it Suffer In Desert. "We crossed many deserts and at times we suffered much, but tho little lit-tle woman and the boy have come out of it none tho worse. As for me, I guess I look healthy cnou?h "Before we left and along the route I saw more than forty Americans murdered by rebels and only our swift mocmeuts saved us from a similar fate. "The Mexican government isn't to I blame it Is doing Its best to protect pro-tect Americans, hut the rebols are different. Thev murdor for the fun of it and llvo by pillage and robbery. rob-bery. Seven years ago I passed through Sajt Lako with my wife, bound for Mexico with a large band of Mormon colonlats.l had considerable consid-erable property and great prospects. Now I have nothing The boy here was boin as we wero going down." Conro Eays he will start all over again at Brigham City, where he has a brother, Frank Conro. He expects to arrive there dunday. oo |